Venezuela opposition hopes for victory in regional elections

Carlos Ocariz was pressing the flesh at a bus stop, trying to persuade potential voters to choose him as their next governor, when a shouted insult from a young man in a passing car pierced the air: “Sellout!” After a startled pause, Ocariz continued chatting up passengers preparing to board one of the government’s new red buses in Miranda, on his mission to keep Venezuela’s second most populous state under opposition control. More…